Moral Economies of Neoliberalism: A Workshop around Melinda Cooper’s Family Values

conversation

Tue, Apr 25, 2017,
06:00 PM –
08:00 PM
The Skylight Room (9100)

Heather Benning, Dollhouse Night #1, 2013

About the event

Michel Foucault famously argued that Chicago school neoliberalism was beyond normativity, uninterested in the disciplinary categories of perversion or deviance. Yet neoliberal scholars were far from libertarian when it came to the legal regulation of sexuality and entertained a much more complex relationship to moral philosophy than what is suggested by Foucault. In this workshop, Melinda Cooper, (author of Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism, 2017), will elucidate what she sees as the moral economy of neoliberalism and its provenance in the poor law tradition of family responsibility. This event will bring together Melinda Cooper with Leigh Claire La Berge, a scholar who has worked on the intersection of neoliberalism and sexual politics.

This event is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and will be on a first come, first serve-basis, so please try to arrive early to secure a seat.